Gordon, learning that it was for sale, got a friend to lend him the money and bought it in, though it would scarcely have been known for the same place.

The mansion had been stripped of its old furniture and pictures soon after General Keith had left there, and the plantation had gone down.
Rumor also said that Wickersham's affairs were in a bad way.

Certainly the new head of the house gave no sign of it.

He opened a yet larger office and began operations on a more extensive scale.

The _Clarion_ said that his Southern enterprises would be pushed actively, and that the stock of the Great Gun Mine would soon be on the New York Exchange.
Ferdy Wickersham suddenly returned to New Leeds, and New Leeds showed his presence.